Rutgers revolt: jocks vs. nerds

Rutgers faculty this week held a series of votes asking the administration to cut the budget to the Athletics dept., which last year ran a $28.7 million deficit. The ancient battle between the jocks and the nerds continues. Apparently the folks in the chemistry don't think an appearance in the non-BCS, New Era Pinstripe bowl is worth all that fat cash. They would be right. For the past decade, Rutgers has been dumping millions and millions of your tax dollars into the athletics dept. desperately hoping for a 'Big Time' college football program. What they got is a modest improvement over their previous futility and a coach who chose to go to Tampa rather than stick around Jersey. Have you ever been to Tampa? Yeeech. Hopefully, with Schiano and his top ten program ambitions heading down to the land of retirees and strip clubs, Rutgers will return it's expectations, and the amount of money they're willing to spend on them, back to reality.